486 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



These are not different in any way from a series from Venezuela 

 and Trinidad. 



First met with at Minca, where a single male was seen and se- 

 cured. It was not again encountered until after reaching Pueblo 

 Viejo, where Mr. Brown's first specimens were taken, and where it 

 proved to be a common bird between 1,500 and 2,500 feet. It was rare 

 at San Miguel, for while conditions of habitat were practically the 

 same, the altitude was apparently a little too high, and the temperature 

 correspondingly lower. It is essentially a species of the foothill-re-- 

 gion of the Tropical Zone. It haunts open woodlands, scattered shrub- 

 bery, and the edges of the forest, and is a very noisy and active bird. 



Samphocelus flammigerus (Jardine and Selby). 



Ramphocelus fiammigerus Sclatee, Cat. Am. Birds, 1861, 79 ("Santa Marta"). 

 The locality quoted is evidently a mistake. What appears to be the same 

 specimen was later given without indication of any more definite locality than 

 " Colombia " (Sclater, Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, XI, 

 1886, 177). 



466. Ramphocelus dimidiatus dimidiatus Lafresnaye. 



Ramphocelus dimidiatus Sclater, Proc. Z06I. Soc. London, 1836, 129 (" Santa 

 Marta")- — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 120 (San Antonio). — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883, 283 ("Santa Marta," in range). — 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 172 (San Antonio). — Bangs, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 141 ("Santa Marta"), 159 (Pueblo 

 Viejo), 179 (Palomina and San Miguel). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XIII, 1900, 168 (Cacagualito) ; XXI, 1905, 292 (Cacagualito and Don 

 Diego; descr. nest and eggs). — von Berlepsch, Verb. V. Int. Orn.-Kong., 

 191 1, 1059 (San Miguel, Palomina, and Cacagualito, in range). 



Ramphocelus dimidiatus dimidiatus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 

 II, 1902, 116 ("Santa Marta"; meas. ; references). 



Additional records: La Concepcion (Brown); Mamatoco (Car- 

 riker). 



Thirty-one specimens: Cacagualito, Buritaca, Don Amo, Cincin- 

 nati, La Tigrera, Minca, Agua Dulce, Fundacion, Don. Diego, Tierra 

 Nueva, and Loma Larga. 



The series exhibits a great deal of variation as regards the extent 

 of the black abdominal patch in adult males, suggesting that this char- 

 acter, upon which Mr. Bangs relies in part in separating R. d. Umatus, 

 should be used with caution. Judging from two obviously immature 

 males with hard skulls taken August 12, and which are moulting into 



